Who are the victims of the Nice terror attack?The Telegraph NEWS 18 JULY 2016 • 9:32AMAt least 84 people, many of them children, were killed when a suspected terrorist drove his truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the French resort of Nice....

The man who mowed through a crowd with a truck, killing 84 Bastille Day revelers in Nice on Thursday, had phoned home hours earlier and sent a 'laughing' picture from the French city, his brother told Reuters... ( Please scroll down for more..)

At least 84 people, many of them children, were killed when a suspected terrorist drove his truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the French resort of Nice.With more than a hundred people being treated for serious injuries, it is feared the death toll will inevitably rise.The victims include young and old from right across the world. Here is what we know so far about those who died.Russian student, Viktoria Savchenko, 21, was visiting Nice with a friend when she was killed in the terror attack.

Based in Moscow, Miss Savchenko, was studying at the Russian Academy of Finance.

Her friend Polina Serebryannikova, 22, who survived the attack said: "My friend and I were walking on the promenade. We saw this truck moving in a strange trajectory. My friend was hit and died.

"I have been taken to the hospital. I have broken toes on one foot, and my other leg is swollen."

American father and son, Sean and Brodie Copeland had been on a dream trip to the South of France, with their family, when they were killed in the terror outrage.

It is thought Mr Copeland, 51, had been with his wife and two other children enjoying the Bastille Day fireworks when the truck careered into the crowds.

He and his 11-year-old son were killed in front of the other family members.

Confirming their deaths, Mr Copeland's niece Hayley Copeland wrote on Facebook: “By now many of you have heard about the 80 people that have died in Nice, France today from a terrorist attack driving through a parade.

"2 of those 80 people were American and those 2 people happen to be uncle Sean and 11 year old cousin Brodie.”She went on: “This is an extremely difficult time for my family and anyone who knows Sean and Brodie Copeland. Losing a loved one is hard no matter the circumstances but losing a loved one in such a tragic and unexpected way is unbearable. Prayers are much appreciated.”

Brodie played Little League baseball for the Hill Country Baseball Club near his home in Austin, Texas, and a message posted on the team’s website also paid tribute to him and his father.The message read: “This evening we would like to ask that the HC family keep the Copelands in your prayers.

“This afternoon our very own Brodie Copeland, as well as his father Sean Copeland, were killed during the terrorist attack in Nice, France.

“Nobody deserves this type of fate, especially not such a wonderful family. You are in our hearts, thoughts, and prayers. Rest in peace, Brodie and Sean, you will be remembered by many.”An American student from the University of California, Berkeley was identified on Sunday as one of the 84 killed, according to statement from his school.

The university said the FBI informed school officials that the body of 20-year-old Nicolas Leslie, from Del Mar in the San Diego area, had been identified. Leslie was a junior at Berkeley's College of Natural Resources.

"This is tragic, devastating news," Nicholas Dirks, UC Berkeley Chancellor, said. "All of us in the UC Berkeley family - both here on campus, and around the world - are heartbroken to learn that another promising young student has been lost to senseless violence."Another Berkeley student, Tarishi Jain, was among the hostages killed by militants in Dhaka, Bangladesh earlier this month.

Three other UC Berkeley students were injured in the attack, all suffering broken bones, according to the school statement. Two, Vladyslav Kostiuk, 23, and Diane Huang, 20, have been released from the hospital and returned to their summer dorms, while a third, 21-year-old Daryus Medora, remained in hospital.

British victims

Prime Minister Theresa May said she was aware of reports of a small number of British people caught up in the terror attack, but there were no confirmed fatalities at this stage.

Mrs May said: "We are working urgently to establish if there are British nationals involved who have been caught up in this attack.

"Our ambassador is travelling to Nice today with consular staff and they will be doing all they can to help anyone affected."

Laurence Olding from London broke his wrist as he jumped over a wall to flee the terrorist truck.

Mr Olding, who had been with his fiancee at the time, said: "We heard lots of commotion, shrieking and shouting and then we saw a truck coming down the promenade, probably at 30 or 40mph, careering from side to side.

"Obviously everybody was running and very concerned about this. We didn't know what to do, so we turned around as everybody else did.

"It got quite close to us so I decided to jump over the wall of the promenade and landed on the concrete which was a bit further down than I anticipated. We were very lucky."

A group of school children from Lancashire, who had been on a school trip to the area, have all been accounted for and are all safe and well, according to staff.

The pupils from Haslingden High School had been in the area at the time, but were fortunately unharmed. They are due to return home to the UK on Saturday.

French victimsFatima Charrihi, a French Muslim woman from Nice, was thought to be one of the first victims to die, according to her son, Hamza.

He said: "She was the first victim, there were no bodies before her. She wore the veil, practising an Islam of the middle ground. A real Islam, not that of the terrorists."Emmanuel Grout, 48, a senior border police commissioner, was among those killed, along with Robert Marchand, a 60-year-old industrial supervisor from Marcigny – a small, rural town in eastern France – and 27-year-old Timothy Fournier from Paris, who died trying to protect his pregnant wife.

Michael Pellegrini, 28, an economics professor at a private school, died alongside his 55-year-old mother, Veronique Lion, a kindergarten assistant, and his grandparents Francis and Christiane Locatelli, 82 and 78-years-old respectively.

Ibrahim H a football referee from Nice lost two members of his family in the carnage is mounting a vigil for his daughter

His son Mehdi, 13, and sister in law Fatima were among those killed, while Mehdi’s twin sister Chérine is in a coma.

Other nationalities

A teacher and two students from Berlin were also feared to have been killed after German officials confirmed they were missing.

According to the Berlin school board, they were from the Paula-Fürst-Gemeinschaftsschule in Charlottenburg and had been on a trip to celebrate their end of year exams.

Two Armenians, a Ukrainian and a Swiss national were also among those confirmed dead.

Meanwhile, it was feared an elderly Italian couple may have been among those killed or injured after relatives said they had not been able to contact them since the attacks.

Angelo D'Agostino, 71, and Gianna Muset, 68, were thought to have been at the Bastille celebrations in Nice when the terrorist struck.

Estonia's Foreign Ministry said it was aware that two Estonian nationals were among the injured.

Up to 50 children are feared injured in the attacks

As many as 10 children are thought to have been killed, with a further 50 youngsters being treated for serious injuries, according to French officials.

There were reports of medics at the local hospital desperately searching for the parents of children being treated.

Linda Casanova Siccardi, one of the two Swiss nationals confirmed to have died, is described in a trade union newsletter as one of the country's first female customs officials.

A 2009 article in the Garanto newsletter says Casanova started in customs in the late 1970s and was the first woman from Ticino to receive a diploma as a customs specialist.

She described attending customs school at an old military barracks in Liestal and breaking through the barriers of a male-dominated industry that hadn't yet adjusted to women in the workplace.

Aside from work, she told the newsletter her big passions were animals, nature and long walks.

The man who mowed through a crowd with a truck, killing 84 Bastille Day revelers in Nice on Thursday, had phoned home hours earlier and sent a 'laughing' picture from the French city, his brother told Reuters.

During a visit to Nice on Sunday, French Health Minister Marisol Touraine said 18 people, including a child, were still in a critical condition, while about 85 people in total were in hospital.

The attack by delivery man Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel at peak holiday time on the Riviera plunged France into new grief and fear, just eight months after jihadist gunmen killed 130 people in Paris.

"That last day he said he was in Nice with his European friends to celebrate the national holiday," Bouhlel's brother Jabeur told Reuters in their native Tunisia. In the photograph, "he seemed very happy and pleased, he was laughing a lot".

Reuters could not verify the existence of the photograph, which Jabeur declined to share.

The attacks, along with one in Brussels four months ago, have shocked Western Europe, already anxious over security challenges from mass immigration, open borders and pockets of Islamist radicalism.

Two more people, a man and a woman close to Bouhlel, were arrested in Nice early on Sunday and another person in the afternoon. Four others arrested previously were still being held, but Bouhlel's estranged wife was released without charge after being held since Friday.

In a pointer to a possible accomplice, one of these seven people still held by police had received a text from the killer thanking that person for providing a weapon, a source close to the investigation told Reuters.

Islamic State has claimed the attack, calling Bouhlel one of its soldiers, but authorities have yet to produce evidence that the 31-year-old, shot dead by police, had any actual links to the militant group.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said there was no doubting the assailant's motives.

"The investigation will establish the facts, but we know now that the killer was radicalised very quickly," he told newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.

As of Sunday no evidence had been produced to show how he underwent that rapid transformation from someone with no apparent interest in religion.

Relatives and friends interviewed in Nice painted a picture of a man who at least until recently drank alcohol, smoked marijuana and according to French media even ate pork, behavior that would be unlikely in a devout Muslim.

A report in the Nice Matin newspaper said investigators had found no radical material in his flat, although they were still looking at his telephone and computer.

Speaking from his home town in Tunisia, Bouhlel's sister told Reuters he had been having psychological problems when he left for France in 2005 and had sought medical treatment.

WHY FRANCE?

Islamic State, which is under military pressure in its Iraqi and Syrian strongholds, considers France a key target given its military operations in the Middle East, and also because it is easier to strike than the United States.

France is also home to Europe's biggest Muslim population, and has been accused by some critics of sowing racial, ethnic and religious discord through strict adherence to a culture that allows no place for religion in schools and civic life.

Long and open borders also make it an easy target for attackers who want to melt away afterwards.

Valls defended France's record on attacks, saying security services had prevented 16 over three years, and said the modus operandi of cajoling unstable people into striking by whatever means possible was difficult to combat.

"Daesh gives unstable individuals an ideological kit that allows them to make sense of their acts ... this is probably what happened in Nice's case," Valls said, referring to the Arabic acronym for Islamic State....